jungle cock

How to use jungle cock in a sentence

• A faint flush showed in the east, and presently a jungle-cock greeted the dawn.

  The Taming of the Jungle | Dr. C. W. Doyle

• They were gone an hour, for the beautiful black-red jungle cock had led them deep into the forest before falling to the gun.

  The Three Sapphires | W. A. Fraser

• It had brown wings, a dark body, and a piece of jungle-cock feather, and it was fastened to a sea-trout casting-line.

  Angling Sketches | Andrew Lang

• The common jungle-cock (Gallus bankiva) was also obtained here.

  The Malay Archipelago | Alfred Russell Wallace

• Now and again the jungle-cock shouts his defiant reveille in a startling fashion, breaking the almost solemn silence.

  The Pearl of India | Maturin M. Ballou